Re-Pete
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double A said:Street Avenger said:Referring to it as a "tremolo" is a pet peeve of mine. There is no tremolo going on with the use of that device. It's vibrato or pitch variation. And what the heck made Leo Fender think it was "synchronized"??
I think I can answer your last question.
Up until the Strat's six-screw "synchronized" tremolo, most tremolo bars had either a moving tailpiece and a stationary bridge, or vise versa. They were separate pieces. On the Strat, the bridge and the "tailpiece" (or in other words, the block the strings anchor in to) where bolted to each other, and thus moved in tandem... a.k.a. "synchronized".
Hey thanx for that explanation Aaron. It does make sense, if you consider that all that was before that whammy bar of the Strat was the Bigsby and some backyard inventions.